Walter Biscardi has a good article on getting post involved first, so it doesn’t need to be fixed in post. A great idea, though I still don’t see it happening anytime soon unfortunately, even though it ends up costing more later. Even just having your post guy consult before shooting would be helpful, but it never happens, even though it should.
FCP.Co has 2 articles from 3D designer Peter Zigich on possible, though pretty out there designs for a new MacPro which Tim Cook has promised we will get this year (hopefully at WWDC).
The first is on a modular tower, and the second a smaller design using low powered AMD chips (wouldn’t that require a new OS and apps?).
Interesting ideas, though I doubt either will happen. I am hoping for something really powerful, and better would be the ability to use PC videos cards without Mac supplies firmware as long as you have drivers, and releasing the 2 GB of video ram limit, NVIDIA TESLA support would be great too, as well as many hard drives as you can stuff in there!
Well modifying to a 6 hour diet seems to have worked for me for the time being. I lost a pound and a half yesterday. Pretty impressive, but then I lost 10 pounds in 7 days to start and then gained 5 and a half pounds back doing the same diet and the same exercise. Still haven’t gotten down quite to where I was, though I am pretty close at this point (another pound). Still want to lose about 73 more pounds here!
And I am doubting that the weight loss will last, as I have already had to cut down from 8 to 6 hours, and now I am so damn hungry in that period! I certainly ate more than I normally would. One salad with chicken, one without, an apple, some berries, 2 servings of beef stew with rice, a mango, and a thing of Carbmaster Dairy product (can’t call it yogurt as it has less than 3 grams of sugar and 60 callories and has the consistency more of pudding, but is OK with some berries) as well as a handful of walnuts and a handfull of almonds. And 25 minutes on the treadmill and some kettle bell.
Pretty impressive that I still lost a pound and a half eating all that, so something in the intermittent fasting does certainly work, just think my body gets used to it really damn fast! I am betting I stop losing weight again within in a week (though I hope I am wrong). And I am not sure I can do a 5 hour, or even a 4 consistently. And 6 is only doable right now as I am working so close to my house! Otherwise, I would probably need to shift to 3 to 8, as I usually don’t get home till around 7 PM or later (currently getting home by 5:30 PM as I start at 7 AM).
And I am going through way too much sugar free gum in the time in between eating, as well as Coke zero! I could see doing quick workouts for some of those times if I wasn’t doing 10 hour work days.
Petapixel has the story on this, how Fuji went back to it’s film days and came up with a random distribution of RGB pixels to recreate film’s lack of moire.
Very very cool. I hope it works, and doesn’t lose resolution or color fidelity.
Hmm, well I did manage to lose a pound yesterday, bringing me closer to my lowest weight, but to do it, I did a 6 hour diet, and had lunch at 1 PM, and ate until 7 PM, youch! And it is currently 11 AM, and I am pretty damn hungry I must say, though I think I can make it to 11.
And I have been eating very healthy. Salad with chicken for lunch, berries and walnuts for snacks, and chicken and falafel for dinner (though did have 2 pieces of pita bread as well). Certainly am not eating everything I want, and struggling here. And I think if I can manage the 6 hour diet, that my body will get used to that too.
I think I will need to cut my portions down even more, but I am eating a normal sized dinner, and small salad with fairly healthy dressing (Brags cut with more vinegar) and by the time I get to dinner I am pretty hungry!
Will keep updating, and I am sticking with it, but no idea if I will be able to keep it up, especially if don’t lose weight!
So Red Giant knows it has issues with Looks and Mojo in FCP X, and it seems they can’t fix it. It is an Apple thing that must be fixed, and there is no word if or when they will.
VideoMaker has a quick little breakdown on the differences between USB 3 (which should be getting a speed improvement to 10Gbps from 4.28Gbps) and Thunberbolt, which is is currently 10Gbps, but with optical cables can go up to 20Gbps in the future and can carry video and more power (though I don’t see how that will be possible with optical).
I have a feeling this will be like Firewire and USB, where USB will eventually win as it is cheaper and backwards compatible, even if Thunderbolt is superior in some way.
CG Meetup has 3 videos on making CG Characters for Peter Jackon’s the Hobbit.
Azog, Goblin King and of course Gollum.
Read about it at creative pro, with ideas of what to replace the missing functionality with. I had no idea they had done this, and am not too happy about it. Wonder what it means for the rest of the apps?